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This newspaper articles highlights certain developments for women's rights, including their ability to serve as county superintendents for school boards. The paper states that 13 Illinois women serve in their county school board and Myra Bradwell…

This newspaper article provides the details of Mary Todd Lincoln's imprisonment in an insane asylum and how the Bradwell couple fought for her freedom. President Lincoln's widow was committed to an asylum after a court found her to be insane. This…

In this timeline of the Woman’s Rights Movement in Illinois created in 1912, one can see how Myra Bradwell was a huge part of the feminist movement. The timeline notes that in the same year she took her case to the United States Supreme Court, she…

The Bradwell School of Excellence in Chicago, Illinois was founded in 1889 and named after Myra Bradwell. Bradwell was an activist for education, as seen with her commitment to the Girls’ Industrial School, and this still functioning school was the…

This pen signed arguably one of the most famous documents in American history, the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln used this pen during his entire presidency, as the caption states. The pen was then gifted to Myra Bradwell by Mary Todd…

This is a scanned copy of the cover for the first volume of the Chicago Legal News, donated to the Library of Congress by Susan B. Anthony in 1903. Myra Bradwell started the newspaper in 1868 under her own name, an accomplishment only possible…

In this letter, Myra Bradwell contacts Abram Wakeman on behalf of Mary Todd Lincoln, seeking assistance in proving her sanity and leaving the "insane asylum." The widow of Abraham Lincoln was committed to the institution by her only living son,…

The Quincy Daily Whig’s coverage of the seventh convention of the Illinois Press Association and covers the different events that occurred. In one section, the paper mentions that Myra Bradwell read “a wonderful little poem on the woman question.”…

This article from The Daily Inter Ocean in Chicago shows the developments with The Soldiers’ Home, a program for veterans where Myra Bradwell served as Vice President. The organization helped pay expenses, such as medical or property bills, for…

The Daily Inter Ocean reported on developments from the Girls’ Industrial School that several local women, including Myra Bradwell, helped manage. The school offered classes to teach girls skills that they would need for the workforce, since women…